But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.
In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe.
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God,
And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
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